When is Global Running Day, you ask? It’s June 7, just in case it didn’t pop up as a calendar alert on your phone.
I’ll be celebrating this international event by taking a group of new-to-the-trails running friends on an adventurous run up and down Green Mountain in Boulder, Colorado. How about you?
Global Running Day started in 2009, originally as National Running Day, as a way to promote general health and fitness with the intent of getting people running. But because the U.S. already had an unofficial national day for that, called Thanksgiving—Thanksgiving is the country’s most popular day for running, with an estimated 1 million people participating in Turkey Trots—it became Global Running Day in 2016.
An estimated 2.5 million people from 177 countries pledged to run more than 9.2 million miles on the inaugural Global Running Day in 2016, supported by a lot of behind-the-scenes work by the New York Road Runners (NYRR) and the World Marathon Majors, two of the largest race organizations in running.
Celebrated on the first Wednesday in June, Global Running Day is a day that encourages anyone around the…
